Federal officials, including the FBI and the ATF, were on the scene helping the local authorities investigate.

“The FBI Jackson Division is aware of the situation in Greenville, and we are working with our local, state and federal law enforcement partners to determine if any civil rights crimes were committed,” said bureau spokesman Brett Carr.

Calling the church-burning a “hateful and cowardly act,” Greenville Mayor Errick Simmons said on Wednesday the incident is being investigated as a hate crime.

“This is a direct assault on people’s right to freely worship,” Simmons said. “We are going to investigate the matter with all deliberate speed and will not rest until the perpetrator is arrested and prosecuted.”

Photos of the graffiti on the burned-out church are already making the rounds on social media amid the tense pre-election atmosphere, as supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton were quick to blame Republican nominee Donald Trump’s supporters.

“The animus of this election cycle combined with the potent racial history of burning black churches as a political symbol makes this event something we must not ignore,” says a GoFundMe page which has been set up to help repair the church.

Greenville is a city of around 35,000 inhabitants in northwestern Mississippi, on the border with Arkansas. The vast majority of its residents are African-American.

To the person who could burn the Greenville Church: Hopefully God still wants you, because neither the Clinton nor the Trump supporters do.